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by karthikb 8y ago
Many airlines (ex. United Airlines) allow refunds within 24 hours of purchase, regardless of general rules of the ticket.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Absolutely true!
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by karthikb 8y ago
It’s a great guide - but there are two main limitations. First, this is the DFM guide specifically for Seeed. Every factory will have a different set of specs depending on equipment (assembly, test, and inspection, and familiarity of operat
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by karthikb 8y ago
Sure, if the inbound bus wasn’t late, or there wasn’t traffic, or...
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by karthikb 8y ago
Right - and that's what would drive US based companies just to shut down access to EU versus trying to comply. The uncertainty may not be worth it for small companies just trying to gauge demand.
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by karthikb 8y ago
If there is only one possible outcome, then that outcome should be clearly encoded in the law. The whole purpose of the court system is to provide interpretation when a law is vague - intentionally or not.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Humidity - carbon fiber fuselage can support more water in the cabin atmosphere.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Toyota has an existing partnership with Uber for leases to drivers. If Uber's thesis - that app-hailing will supplant car ownership - is correct, then car manufacturers have an incentive to either create their own hailing networks or p
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by karthikb 8y ago
A huge fraction of cars driven by Uber drivers are made by Toyota. More often than not, you'll get picked up by a Prius, Corolla, or Camry. So to some extent, this is about maintaining market share.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Absolutely agreed
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by karthikb 8y ago
What is repeatability? 10% of the time? 50% of the time? 99% of the time? 99.9999% of the time? Even medications made in high volume processes have rejected units (and sometimes, batches). Process drifted, machine failed, raw ingredients ha
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by karthikb 8y ago
Would be super helpful for corporate offices. Input a list of employee home addresses and find commute time isoclines, or locations which minimize mean or median commute.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Knowledge leaks onto employees even in factories. That's why a welder with 30 years of experience is different than one that is fresh out of trade school. Better knowledge of tools, techniques, etc. You could hire a senior welder and
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by karthikb 8y ago
The military signal is encrypted and on a different band. Only the military has access to that signal.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Yeah...at a startup, doing this many 1:1s doesn't make too much sense. Doing a bunch of 1:1 to get people going the same direction means they weren't already in the same direction...means you're burning resources. At BigCo i
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by karthikb 8y ago
Tokyo metro is one company of many that provide subway services in Tokyo. There’s also JR, Keisei, and several other companies. Some are fully private, some are joint ventures with the government - but key is that none of these companies ha
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by karthikb 8y ago
Suggest that you actually look at privately run transit infrastructure that exists today. Tokyo subway systems (JR, Tokyo Metro, Keisei) - all private. Or Hong Kong - MTR is private. The real problem is putting operations and verification i
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by karthikb 8y ago
And yet in a congested city, the closest car parking may be 2-3 blocks. Not a huge advantage over bike docks.
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by karthikb 8y ago
I bet there are some steps within the tent that have better yields or better QC than inside the factory (others are undoubdtedly worse). How do those effectively get transferred over? Thats technical debt.
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by karthikb 8y ago
For most people, it takes conscious thought and effort to take an impression and articulate it. When you tell your references ahead of time, you're giving them a chance to take their impression/opinion/emotion of you and fig
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by karthikb 8y ago
Value based pricing. More willingness to pay for ex-US fares than from anywhere else in the world.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Many stores will have custom SKU or model IDs, so a mattress that is physically identical and cheaper somewhere else is actually a different product per the paperwork...
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by karthikb 8y ago
Depends. But most airports define the MCT based on their primary usage So - are they primarily a transit hub? Endpoint? Etc.
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by karthikb 8y ago
Base model Leaf or Electric Smart? You’ll still get cruise control (you don’t need to use it), ABS (proven to save lives, but you can of course pump the brakes if you wish) etc.
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by karthikb 8y ago
There’s a defined “minimum connection time” for each airport which you need to manually check when booking separate tickets.
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by karthikb 8y ago
> Checking if I have connecting flights can be done without knowing my name Not always. Many airlines (for example, American Airlines) will protect your connection even if you've purchased two separate tickets. And they'll do t
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by karthikb 8y ago
Specifically with history, contemporary topics being skipped over is not only common but an incredible disservice to humanity. Many schools spend months on Columbus but only 1-2 weeks on the entire post Cold War era. Which one is more impor
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by karthikb 8y ago
Emirates (subject of this thread) almost exclusively flies super long haul overnights. Their proposal wouldn’t work for the domestic 2-3 hr hops, but does work well for that 12 hour flight where one person trying to look outside wakes the w
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by karthikb 8y ago
It’s not always just about the money. One of the most effective ways to ensure that a long-term project stays alive at a big company as people come and go is to create an external tie-up or partnership.
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Most geniuses aren't assholes. But no one writes news stories about individuals that have no drama and are pleasant to work with.

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